IN modern history, female suicide bombers have earned dubious honour of becoming more news-worthy than their male counterparts following the widespread belief that women are naturally not wicked, non-violent, motherly and weak to take such deadly task of committing suicide bombing. However, records have revealed that the participation of women in any terrorist activity and even as suicide bombers is hardly a recent phenomenon as their debut suicide attacks have been traced to early eighties.

Women in north Nigeria’s largest city Kano are abandoning their traditional religious dress after a spate of suicide bombings by young girls with explosives under their hijab.

A socio-political group under the aegis of Presidential View,has said last Saturday’s election of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has boosted the chances of President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election.

An Iranian-born mathematician has become the first woman to win a prestigious Fields Medal, widely viewed as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.

A quarter of the world’s population will be African within 35 years, the UN children’s agency said on Tuesday, as the continent’s birth rates continue to rapidly rise.